Metaphase is particularly useful in cytogenetics, because chromosomes can be most easily visualized at this stage. Furthermore, cells can be experimentally arrested at metaphase with mitotic ...

The membrane around the nucleus disappears. Metaphase Chromosomes and their copies line up in the middle of the cell. Anaphase Chromosomes and their copies are pulled to different ends of the cell.

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process ...

capitalizing on the fixed pattern of chromosome numbers and classes in metaphase cells. The study demonstrates ChromTR's ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Without microtubules to guide them there, the unattached DNA fragments do not migrate to the metaphase plate and instead linger in the surrounding areas of the cell. They will likely be targeted for ...

Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction ...

Beckwith and colleagues used a method to gently remove one strand of DNA in cells at various stages of cell division, keeping the chromosome structure intact. They could then use targeted sets of ...

Mitosis is conventionally divided into five stages known as prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. While mitosis is taking place, there is no cell growth and all of the ...